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| BRIGITTE WILLACH | BATIK-ATELIER | |
| STRESEMANNALLEE 27 E | 30173 HANNOVER | GERMANY |
| FON: ++49 511 802754 | ||
| brigitte@willach-atelier.de | www.willach-atelier.de |
CV - BRIGITTE WILLACH
Brigitte Willach was born January 19th 1949 in Linz, Austria. Since 1970, she has lived and worked in Hannover.
At the age of fifteen, she first started to experiment with the fascinating wax-resist and dyeing art process called BATIK.
This medium became the focus of her artistic profession. She uses it to create an aura of her thoughts and feelings. Batik is now a substantial part of her life.
The artistic oeuvre is the reflection of an intensive analysis of the art form Batik. This technique generates from Asia but increasingly conquers the art scene of Europe and the USA.
Realistic motifs are transformed associatively, the impression becomes the expression of light and colour. The abstract paintings are a result of not only thoughts but also of feelings and experiences which surround her.
Many of her images are influenced through her travels in Europe and the USA, especially Arizona.
During the last twenty years, she has designed many Batik exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
It was in 1985 that she first experienced the process of this unique medium in its native country of Indonesia. Since that time, she and the country have had a very intense connection.
Her special love belongs to Central Java, particularly the city of Jogjakarta. Over the years, many Batik artists and Batik experts there have become friends. She has studied design, ornamentation, and the dyeing process of traditional Indonesian batiks and Ikats, and has amassed an unusual and museum quality personal collection of these textiles.
In 1997, Ms Willach attended a very special exhibition of Batik in Indonesia under the patronage of the Indonesian government . Since then she participated as a juror and speaker in different Batik Symposia and Conferences.
For one month In February 2002 Hannover became a centre for Batik. Ms. Willach organized the exhibition BATIK OF CHANGE. She invited batik artists from all over the world, and Indonesian designers for this event.
Brigitte Willach’s art work has now established itself in Germany and Indonesia. She has even become an ambassador for Batik all over the world.
| 1994 | International Textile Symposium, Jakarta, Indonesia |
| 1996 | International Textile Symposium, Jambi/Sumatra, Indonesia |
| 1997 |
International Batik Exhibition and Conference DUNIA BATIK - WORLD BATIK, Jogjakarta, Indonesia |
| 1999 |
International Textile Symposium, Sanur/Bali, Indonesia International Batik Gathering NOW & THEN, Gent, Belgium |
| 2000 |
Member of the Jury, Ikat Competition, Sintang, Kalimantan, Indonesia Member of the Jury, 1, LOMBA BATIK – Competition for Indonesian Batik Designers, Jogjakarta, Indonesia |
| 2001 |
International Batik Exhibition and Symposium, TAKTHA, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 |
Organization and Realisation, International Exhibition BATIK OF CHANGE, Chamber of Commerce Hannover, Germany Member of the Jury, 2. LOMBA BATIK, Jogjakarta, Indonesia |
| 2003 |
Organization and Realization, special BATIK-SHOW, International Batik Artists on the CREATIVA-Fair, Dortmund, Germany International Exhibition and Symposium BATIK 2003…Art in Motion, Gent, Belgium International Textile Symposium, Cisarua/Bogor, Indonesia International Batik Exhibition and Conference, SURFACE DESIGN, Aarhus, Denmark |
| 2004 | Lecture: For the Artist Group SONORAN ART LEAGUE, Carefree, Arizona, USA |
| 2005 |
WAX ELOQUENT, WORLD BATIK EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE, Boston, USA Lecture at the International Seminar THE PEKALONGAN BATIK MUSEUM, BRIDGING TIME AND PEOPLE, Pekalongan, Indonesia |
| 2006 |
Lecture at the Batik Exhibition PAINTED WITH WAX, JAVANESE BATIK AND POLISH BATIK, State Ethnographical Museum, Warsaw, Poland Lecture at the International Seminar, Gallery Smend, Cologne, Germany |
| 2007 |
Lecture at the International textile Symposium TRADITIONAL TEXTILES OF INDONESIA: TODAY AND THE FUTURE, Jakarta, Indonesia KLIB, Kuala Lumpur International Batik, Convention Exhibition 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2008 |
Participation PATCHWORKTAGE 2008 EINBECK, Einbeck, Germany Traditional Indonesian Batik, Collection, B. Willach Lecture: Javanese and Contemporary Batik Lecture at the Seminar Nasional, Jogjakarta, Indonesia BATIK DI MATA BANGSA INDONESIA DAN DUNIA |
| 2009 | Lecture at the Exhibition EUROPEAN BATIK - LOOKING FORWARD, Texture Gallery, Scottsdate, USA |
| 2011 | Lecture at the Seminar FIBER FACE 3, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Batik presentation and lecture, Conulate General Indonesia, Hamburg, Germany Lecture at WORLD BATIK SUMMIT 2011, Jakarta, Indonesia Batik presentation and lecture, Deutsch-Indonesische Gesellschaft Niedersachsen, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2012 | Curator and lecture: Beauty and variety of Indonesian Batik, special exhibition collections Dr. Hutapea, Soekrisno, Reksoprodjo, Taufik, Mokoginta and Kramadibrata, Jakarta, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany in cooperation with Consulate General Indonesia, Hamburg, Germany |